Meanwhile... (Holiday "Cheer" Redux....)

Leave it to old-school Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the Dean of the House, to use his Season's "greeting" email to slam his Republican colleagues. Here's the text of Dingell's holiday poem, titled "The Grinches that Stole Christmas":

Every Democrat (and many Republicans) in Congress liked Christmas a lot.

But some Grinches who lived just north of Congress, Did NOT!

The Grinches hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.

It could be their perspectives weren't quite right.

It could be, perhaps, that their budgets were just too tight.

But I think that the most likely reason of all,

May have been they were still having a hard time accepting their fall...

Whatever the reason, their perspective or their fall,

They stood there near Christmas, hating the Congressional halls,

Some at undisclosed locations with frowns and sneers,

They reflected on all the Democrats accomplished this year,

A new direction was made, and much was completed

They knew this was true, and their brows became heated

"We must stop their progress," they grumbled and mumbled

"We'll veto and veto and hope the Dems stumble.

"We'll tell them S-CHIP was bad, a political fumble"

"Well we'll see who laughs last when the Democrats crumble"

"They're counting their votes," they said with a sneer

"Energy independence will pass before recess gets here."

So off they rode south, speeding down Pennsylvania Ave

Saying, "I will take from the poor and give to those that have"

"Drive faster", they screamed at their non-union drivers

"The House passes bills as consistent as a geyser"

But then a phone rang, with an audible tweeter

It was none other than the Senate Minority Leader

"Sir I have plan to stop the Christmas cheer"

"One that is dastardly, mean and quite insincere."

"Do tell!" said the listener, his ears all atwitter

"We need a good plan, the pick of the litter."

"We have no agenda, the Party's a mess

"Our presidential frontrunner too often wears a dress

"Tax cuts for the rich failed, so too has fear, war and bigotry

"So what I propose are filibusters and stopping conference committees"

"So simple, so sure, so plain to see"

"When we have nothing to offer: obstruct the majority"

"Dems have an agenda, a plan for the holiday season"

"We have nothing, not at all, no rhyme or no reason"

And then grins spread from ear to ear

And laughs were let out for all to hear,

"Yes that's what we'll do, we'll complain and obstruct -- it is all we can offer

Can somebody teach this guy to write lines that SCAN? Jeez. It's not as if Dr. Seuss is hard to parody...the guy wrote his books using a verse template! Whatever his other virtues, Dingell showed that he has zero understanding of how to write verse. For someone like that to give a poem to the press is like a tone-deaf singer putting on a concert at the Met.
The next obvious question is: why publish something so badly executed?

Why leave it to Dingell when the Sleuth can slam his Republican colleagues? Having scanned down to this post (ten in all), there's nary a one that discusses the troubles and travails of a Democrat. Well, except for Lieberman, who I'm sure many don't consider a Democrat.

Shocking--at least we have a pure, ethically unchallenged party in power in Congress. Must be the first time in history.